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[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

A lot of steam games dont have drm

You would lose only most of your library, not all of it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I would lose some of my library, but I think most of it would still work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If a game has multiplayer, it most likely has DRM

Terraria and Cuphead are games i know dont work because of that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Can you not connect by IP in Terraria? I had though I had multiplayer running without even starting steam at one point...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Because steam multiplayer is implemented into the game, you cant open the app if steam is not installed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I thought I had it running without starting steam before... That was pre-1.4 and the windows version though, so things may have changed. I know there used to be a wrapper that would start the game outside of steam, but that was ages ago.

I don't think this is because of multiplayer though, as you can just not use steam services for multiplayer and connect directly to IPs. In my case trying to run without steam started causing crashes with windows forms, so steam linux runtime is probably being used for at least a few things.

Copying terraria to a windows VM (which was far more work that it needed to be) results in something similar, with a TypeInitializationException, so Steam is needed for what looks to be some social API, maybe for grabbing social links? It's quite possible that there are more things, but I don't think Terraria requires steam multiplayer services, especially as the GOG version runs without steam.

I don't think that counts as DRM, but the end effect is similar: steam needs to be running. If steam ever dies, I'm certain a simple wrapper will be made to run Terraria and probably many similarly integrated games, but it is not ideal.